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Key Takeaways Avoiding problems might make your life easier now, but it creates new challenges you’ll have to deal with later.
Retrain your brain to embrace crisis by moving toward problems instead of away from them, building relationships before you need help, taking time for stillness and separating reality from your fears.
Identify the hardest thing you’ve been working around in your life or business. Name it clearly. Then take a step toward it instead of continuing to avoid it.
Although I’m not the world’s number one Miley Cyrus fan, I can get behind some of her lyrics. Specifically:
“There’s always gonna be another mountain. I’m always gonna wanna make it move.”
The song climbed the charts many years ago, but the idea behind it hasn’t aged a day: Growth demands effort, and progress rarely comes without resistance.
I didn’t become CEO of an industry-leading dialing software platform by waiting for opportunities to knock. And while I’ve been lucky in many ways, my life hasn’t always been easy.
Even when the world is at its most daunting, you have a choice in how you handle difficulties. And you can’t spend your life avoiding those difficulties, because there will be obstacles standing between you and almost anything you want out of life.
You pay for every corner you cut
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